Access Under Fire: OST in Wartime Lebanon
On 3 March, one day after Israel bombed Beirut for the first time since the so called ceasefire of November 2025, Lebanon’s Narcotics Department of the Ministry of Public Health,…
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Safer Injection Facilities: A Safe Place for People Who Inject Drugs
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Safer injection facilities (SIFs), also known as supervised injection facilities, exist in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, Canada, Australia, Luxembourg…
Ukrainian Health Campaign: “Hepatitis C: We Demand Treatment”
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On 28 July, Ukraine held its annual campaign dedicated to World Hepatitis Day. Street events were held in Kyiv and…
Groundbreaking Programme Reduces Drug Misuse in Brazil’s “Crackland”
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A Brazilian drug programme, With Open Arms, is providing people who misuse crack cocaine with housing and employment. The approach,…
Uruguay Carries Out Its First Ever Drug Testing Initiative at Festival
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Harm reduction in Uruguay has taken a major step forward with the on-site testing of drugs at a festival in…
Access to Hepatitis C Treatment at 1% in EECA Countries
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28 July is World Hepatitis Day. This date was officially recognised in 2011 when the World Health Organisation (WHO) added…
Civil Society Groups Condemn Human Rights Violations in Mexico Ahead of Peña Nieto’s Argentina Visit
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Argentine human rights organizations sent a letter to President Macri ahead of Enrique Peña Nieto's official visit. Mr. Mauricio Macri…
Indonesia to Execute Drug Offenders Amid Unfair Trials Claims
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The Indonesian government is set to execute more than a dozen people for drug offences, despite allegations that inmates’ confessions…
Time To Test: The Festival Drug Report – Part II
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Go to a festival this summer, and drugs will never be far away. As the UK festival season gets underway,…
New Zealand’s Regulation of New Psychoactive Substances Doomed to Fail
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New Zealand’s much heralded regulation of new psychoactive substances (NPS) appears be at a complete standstill after its introduction three…
Victoria Lintsova: “Behind every woman who takes drugs, there is a history of violence”
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Victoria Lintsova, a Ukrainian activist of the Eurasian Network of People Who Use Drugs (ENPUD), appealed on her Facebook page…
Punitive Drug Laws Hindering Kenya’s Fight Against HIV
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The stigmatisation, criminalisation, and incarceration of people who use drugs in Kenya is undermining the government’s success in reducing HIV.…
Activists from Eastern Europe held a protest against the greed of pharmaceutical companies during AIDS2016 – VIDEO
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Activists from Eastern Europe held a protest against the greed of international pharmaceutical companies during AIDS2016 – the World Conference…